Shopping Facilities

Larger shops and department stores in downtown Saarbrücken close at 8pm Monday-Friday, at 4pm on Saturday, and are closed on Sunday. Some bakeries are open until 11am or 12noon on Sundays. Only the bakery at the Hauptbahnhof is open on Sundays until thlate afternoon. A small grocery shop in the Hauptbahnhof is also open longer hours.

Restaurants are, of course, open on Sundays. Stuhlsatzenhaus Restaurant, a few minutes on Stuhlsatzenhausweg, is open on Sundays but closed on Saturdays.

Pharmacies are separate stores and are not affiliated with grocery or drugstores. You need to go to a pharmacy to buy headache medicines and other non-prescription and prescription drugs.

Department Stores

There are three department stores in Saarbrücken. In order by decreasing prices, they are:

  • Karstadt, in Bahnhofstrasse and Betzenstr. Bahnhofstrasse is the large, pedestrian-only street downtown.
  • Kaufhof, in Bahnhofstrasse, a one-minute walking from the Hauptbahnhof.
  • Real, in Saar Basar and in Fischbachstr. in Dudweiler.

Grocery Stores

  • Edeka is a grocery shop on campus, situated next to the book store "Book & Seip" in the heart of the campus area.
  • Plus. Take bus number 11 or 19 to Johanniskirche. Plus is on the first floor of the building at the intersection.
  • Lidl. Take bus number 11 or 19 to Dudweiler Markt.
  • Real. Real is a large grocery store, but it is not conveniently reachable by public transit. In Saar Basar and in Fischbachstr. in Dudweiler.

Ethnic/exotic spices/food

Asian groceries' shops:

  • Shop in Dudweiler Markt (misleadingly named Leder Nonner): sells a large collection of Chinese, Japanese, Thai, but also Indian spices and ingredients.

Indian grocery shops:

  • Two tram stops from Johanniskirche in the direction of Brebach/Saarguemines. From the tram stop, you can see the shop at the street corner.

Turkish grocery shops:

  • At the intersection of Richard Wagner and Dudweilerstr. downtown.
  • In the Nauwieserviertel (downtown quarter, north of the pedestrian zone) at Rotenbergstr. and Nauwieserstr.

Electronics Stores

  • Saturn, across the street from the Hauptbahnhof (Saar Galerie)
  • Conrad Electronic Gmbh. In Triererstr., two-minute walk from the Hauptbahnhof. Conrad sells 220V-110V transformers.

Hairdressers

Saarbrücken has a large number of hairdressers, but most of them expect you to have an appointment. One hairdresser that accepts drop-ins is on the St. Johanner Market and is called "Cut and Go".